Gloria A. Bachmann, MD

Gloria Bachmann is a nationally and internationally recognized physician who has moved health care to the next level in many areas. At Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, she is an attending physician in gynecology and the Medical Director of the PROUD Gender Center of NJ. At Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, she is a Professor of Ob/Gyn & Medicine, the Associate Dean for Women’s Health and the Co-director of the Women’s Health Institute. She is a respected clinician, a valued mentor, a prolific researcher, and a sought-after educator. She has a long history of being the principal and co-principal investigator on several clinical trials, including federally funded NIH protocols. Data derived from her participation in multiple research trials has added extensively to the literature and to many advances in health care. She strongly advocates, especially in underserved populations, for wellness screening, especially cancer screening through not only clinical practice, but alsp through the many educational tools that she oversees the development of. For example, for previously incarcerated women, she led in the production of animated videos that educated reentry women on the need for breast, colon and cervical cancer screening. She is a graduate of Rutgers University and received her MD degree from the Perlman School of Medicine, at the University of Pennsylvania. She also completed her Ob/Gyn residency training at the University of Pennsylvania.